无常 (無常) wúcháng
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wúcháng
adjective
irregular
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '無常' 2; Mathews 1931 '無常', p. 25) -
wúcháng
adjective
changing frequently
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '無常' 1) -
wúcháng
noun
impermanence; anitya; anicca
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: anitya, Pali: anicca, Japanese: mujō, Tibetan: mi rtag pa; anitya is the first of the 三相 trilakṣaṇa 'three marks of existence' (BL 'anitya'; Ding '無常'; FGDB '無常'; Lusthaus 2002, p. 544; Mahāvyutpatti 'anityam'; SH '無常', p. 378)
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- 出没无常(出沒無常) to appear and disappear unpredictably
- 祸福无常(禍福無常) disaster and happiness do not follow rules; future blessings and misfortunes are unpredictable
- 黑白无常(黑白無常) two deities, one short, one tall, chained together at the ankle, responsible for rewarding the good and punishing the bad
- 喜怒无常(喜怒無常) temperamental; moody
- 反复无常(反覆無常) unstable; erratic; changeable; fickle
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- 卷113 官氏志九 Volume 113 Treatise 9: Official Ranks Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 5
- 卷十七 Scroll 17 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 5
- 卷四十 Scroll 40 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 5
- 卷五十九 志第十一: 地理二 Volume 59 Treatises 12: Geography 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 5
- 卷三十 志第二十 刑法 Volume 30 Treatises 20: Punishment and Law Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 5
- 卷四十九 王充王符仲長統列傳 Volume 49: Biographies of Wang Chong, Wang Fu, Zhongchang Tong Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 4
- 卷一百三十 載記第三十 赫連勃勃 Volume 130 Records 30: Helian Bobo Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 4
- 卷一百五十六 志第一百〇九 選舉二 Volume 156 Treatises 109: Selection and appointment of Officials 2 History of Song 宋史 — count: 4
- 卷108之一 禮志四之一 Volume 108a Treatise 4: Rituals 1 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 4
- 兵法第十七 Chapter 17: Military Strategy Guanzi 管子 — count: 3
Collocations
- 行无常 (行無常) 行無常 — Guanzi 管子, 兵法第十七 Chapter 17: Military Strategy — count: 5
- 国无常 (國無常) 國無常經 — Guanzi 管子, 法法第十六 Chapter 16: Fa Fa — count: 4
- 官无常 (官無常) 故官無常貴 — Mozi 墨子, 卷二 尚賢上 Book 2 - Exaltation of the Virtuous I — count: 3
- 富贵无常 (富貴無常) 是以富貴無常 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷三十六 楚元王傳 Volume 36: Prince Yuan of Chu --- Liu Xiang and Liu Xin — count: 3
- 无常居 (無常居) 蘇秦家無常居 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷二十 泰族訓 Chapter 20: superior Lineage — count: 3
- 无常仪 (無常儀) 無常儀的也 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 外儲說左上第三十二 Chapter 32: A Collection of Sayings III — count: 3
- 无常行 (無常行) 故知時者無常行 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十二 道應訓 Chapter 12: Responses of the Way — count: 3
- 无常师 (無常師) 德無常師 — Book of Documents 尚書, 商書 咸有一德 Shang Shu - Common Possession of Pure Virtue — count: 2
- 无常法 (無常法) 而國無常法也 — Guanzi 管子, 君臣上第三十 Chapter 30: A Ruler and his Ministers I — count: 2
- 变化无常 (變化無常) 變化無常 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十五 兵略訓 Chapter 15: Military Planning — count: 2